A lone spacecraft's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years.

Voyager 2’s flyby of the sideways-rotating Uranus revealed previously unknown rings and moons around the planet. But the spacecraft’s observations of Uranus’ magnetosphere were wildly ...

Voyager 2 traveled more than 1.8 billion miles in nine years to reach Uranus. It gathered most of its data on the mysterious planet, including its rings and moons, in just six hours. The results ...

Voyager 2 came within about 50,000 miles of Uranus' cloud tops, providing the first-ever close-up views of the planet, its rings and its moons. A NASA image of Uranus taken by Voyager 2 in 1986.

Based on 20 years of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, new research sheds light on one of the solar system’s ...

astronomers were able to estimate the planet’s rotation at 17 hours, 14 minutes, and 24 seconds. Something Strange Happened During Voyager 2’s Flyby of Uranus in 1986 However, there was a ...

The research builds on existing information about Uranus, like the fact that the planet is composed mainly of water and ...

Much of our understanding of Uranus comes from Voyager 2's flyby, which to date remains the only time a spacecraft has visited the planet. Voyager 2's data on the magnetosphere surrounding Uranus ...

The strange, sideways-rotating planet – the third largest in our solar system – has always been something of a mystery to astronomers. But when Voyager 2 got an up-close look at Uranus in 1986 ...